http://dublinopinion.com/2006/12/11/christmas-books-review-of-the-review/ It's a group blog. What more do you need to know? Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:24:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 http://dublinopinion.com/2006/12/11/christmas-books-review-of-the-review/#comment-6371 Susan Hated Literature » Books and Rugby and whatnot Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:30:08 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2006/12/11/christmas-books-review-of-the-review/#comment-6371 [...] Anyways, a before Christmas Donagh of Dublin Opinion got in contact regarding books of the year, but of course it has taken me this long to get around to it. And because I rarely buy hardback books, and pay no real attention as to whether a book is new or old, it probably wouldn’t be a good idea to regard this as a “Books of 2006″ type post, more a “books I enjoyed in 2006″ list. In no particular order, my top reads of 2006: [...] […] Anyways, a before Christmas Donagh of Dublin Opinion got in contact regarding books of the year, but of course it has taken me this long to get around to it. And because I rarely buy hardback books, and pay no real attention as to whether a book is new or old, it probably wouldn’t be a good idea to regard this as a “Books of 2006″ type post, more a “books I enjoyed in 2006″ list. In no particular order, my top reads of 2006: […]

]]> http://dublinopinion.com/2006/12/11/christmas-books-review-of-the-review/#comment-1270 Pretty Cunning » Books and Rugby and whatnot Mon, 08 Jan 2007 12:50:33 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2006/12/11/christmas-books-review-of-the-review/#comment-1270 [...] Anyways, a before Christmas Donagh of Dublin Opinion got in contact regarding books of the year, but of course it has taken me this long to get around to it. And because I rarely buy hardback books, and pay no real attention as to whether a book is new or old, it probably wouldn’t be a good idea to regard this as a “Books of 2006″ type post, more a “books I enjoyed in 2006″ list. In no particular order, my top reads of 2007: [...] […] Anyways, a before Christmas Donagh of Dublin Opinion got in contact regarding books of the year, but of course it has taken me this long to get around to it. And because I rarely buy hardback books, and pay no real attention as to whether a book is new or old, it probably wouldn’t be a good idea to regard this as a “Books of 2006″ type post, more a “books I enjoyed in 2006″ list. In no particular order, my top reads of 2007: […]

]]> http://dublinopinion.com/2006/12/11/christmas-books-review-of-the-review/#comment-364 Donagh Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:16:50 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2006/12/11/christmas-books-review-of-the-review/#comment-364 Oh for heaven's sake: <i>which breaths life in to those people who surrounded McGahern </i>!! As if McGahern's prose has Lazarus like resuscitative qualities. Surely I mean "which breathes life in to the memory of those people who surrounded McGahern as he grew up under the shadow of his sadistic bowsey of a father." Whichever way you look at it, it's a fairly mangled sentence. Oh for heaven’s sake: which breaths life in to those people who surrounded McGahern !!
As if McGahern’s prose has Lazarus like resuscitative qualities.
Surely I mean “which breathes life in to the memory of those people who surrounded McGahern as he grew up under the shadow of his sadistic bowsey of a father.” Whichever way you look at it, it’s a fairly mangled sentence.

]]> http://dublinopinion.com/2006/12/11/christmas-books-review-of-the-review/#comment-362 Donagh Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:02:07 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2006/12/11/christmas-books-review-of-the-review/#comment-362 Yes, I pipped you to the post, as I saw it was in your LibraryThing catalogue. But surely Copernicus, you could do a much better and more thorough job than my rushed paragraph. I had planned to write more but I can't think of anything else to add at the moment. Yes, I pipped you to the post, as I saw it was in your LibraryThing catalogue. But surely Copernicus, you could do a much better and more thorough job than my rushed paragraph. I had planned to write more but I can’t think of anything else to add at the moment.

]]> http://dublinopinion.com/2006/12/11/christmas-books-review-of-the-review/#comment-351 copernicus Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:51:40 +0000 http://dublinopinion.com/2006/12/11/christmas-books-review-of-the-review/#comment-351 Shit, I was going to do Memoir. Shit, I was going to do Memoir.

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